Rotavirus vaccine?

kmlkjh

Did your LO get this vaccine? Was this not a mandatory/standard vaccine? Did anyone's LO not get this vaccine? I know there are ways to get around vaccinating your child if that's really what you want to do but our original pedi made it sound like this was a standard vaccination just like all the others. 

The reason I'm asking is that we just moved and are trying to find a new pedi and the one we recently tried (I wasn't impressed) seemed shocked that LO was a reasonably healthy infant, full term and was given the rotavirus vaccine. I did not question our original pedi's desire to vaccinate LO for rotavirus because I trusted him, and to be perfectly honest, I am glad he did because the child in the crib next to LO at daycare around 9 months old went out for 2 weeks due to rotavirus. This new pedi just completely threw me off by treating me like a complete idiot for giving LO a rotavirus vaccine.

pinkiemo

Um as far as I know it's completely standard. We switched insurance and providers when G was 4 months and both places vaccinated for rota. As I understand it's a pretty important one for younger babies as the risk of contacting it is high and the complications can be severe. If it were me I'd question that pedi's judgment...

blissfullyignorant

DS wasn't. His pedi said it wasn't really worth it. By the time he was really around other kids (in daycare) he was old enough that the pedi said it wasn't worth vaccinating him.

TBLilyRose

Yeah, my Pedi kind of gave us more of an option with that one than the others, it seemed. She convinced me when she said her son caught it from being at the library and it was 2 weeks straight of diarrhea.

BelleIsa

We got the rotavirus vaccine for DD - but at the time we were living in Beijing and travelling all over Asia.  She also got the BCG vaccine (tuberculosis - the one that leave the permanent scar on your arm) for the same reason (because we were in Asia).  They were mandatory there and all infants got them, and for a good reason!

The rotavirus was just a syrup that DD drank - no big deal.  It just gave her gas for a day.

hopkins5

It's standard at my doctor's office

mommyhd

My insurance covers vaccinations 100%, so there was no way I was skipping the Rotavirus vaccine. I think it's pretty standard at our pedi.

BelhurstBride

DD had a bad reaction to the initial dose so we made the decision not to continue with that vaccine. Our pedi said, due to medical advances, the rotavirus rarely causes serious complications in the US and that it wasn't worth continuing it when it made DD so sick. 

Lariah14

intheflowers:

Without the vaccine, 1/65 children would be hospitalized for complications related to rotavirus (high fever, severe vomiting and diarrhea--dehydration--which can kill an infant/toddler). The vaccination reduces hospitalizations by 94%. The vax decreases the number of children infected with the virus, decreases the severity of the disease in those that do get the virus, and decreased the incidence of hospitalization. It's standard with our pedi and for good reason.

 

JLGY

My DD had this vaccination done.